Cedar dining table started

Ljohnsaw · March 29, 2014, 08:05:08 PM

Beautiful,
But, why the board on the bottom of the legs? Just curious. I'm assuming that this in an inside dining table. Personally, I would go without and it would look like the table is growing out of the floor.

mmartone · May 11, 2014, 09:59:50 AM

We are finally back at this project! We just put a tin roof on Jacks house and we need to do mine next. Jack decided we needed to do some live edge cedar benches for this table! They are cut to length and rough sanded, we have come up with this for legs. They are some 4x4 piece with some bark included, we are going to sculpt them some. We are going to bore the 2" thick top and 2": thick base and insert the legs all the way through and put some brass screws or rivets in the holes left from the backing plate screws.

This piece is 3" thick but I needed something for fitting the hole saw hole.

mmartone · May 11, 2014, 11:11:22 PM

Tonight we bored the bench tops and test fit one and sat on it! Lots more grinding and sanding to flush the posts through the tops and scallop and shape the posts and bases. I think we are going to glue and screw using the craig jig, the bases to the posts and to the top.

Warbird · May 11, 2014, 11:46:21 PM

That's going to look superb when it's all done. Nice work!

rrrun · May 23, 2014, 03:55:15 PM

Absolutely fabulous work. How many hours have you put into the project, any idea?

yukon cornelius · May 23, 2014, 08:56:22 PM

that looks fantastic!!! well done!!

Lud · May 24, 2014, 05:47:14 AM

Nice work. Strong design elements. Building big tables is very satisfying, isn't it! 8 8)) 8) 8)

mmartone · May 24, 2014, 08:50:34 PM

Hours so far, alot but unkown. Thank you for the compliments, we are very happy with it so far, cant wait to get some finish on it! As many of you know, the issue with stuff like this is pricing. We do have a fancy area west of Panama City Beach and hope to find some sort of crafty show to do in that area.

mmartone · June 23, 2014, 07:57:00 AM

We did a little work yesterday, got 2 coats of shellac on one bench after flush cutting off the dowels.

thecfarm · June 23, 2014, 09:30:59 AM

That shellac brought out the grain!!

mmartone · August 24, 2014, 11:02:57 PM

Well we have finally got a little time this evening to do some sanding and some more shellacing...

2nd bench going together

more shellac on the 1st bench

first coat on the table top!

WDH · August 25, 2014, 07:09:17 AM

Shaping up very nicely.

samandothers · August 25, 2014, 09:48:38 PM

Wow that made the color pop!

mmartone · September 10, 2014, 12:21:39 AM

This is the first coat of poly after a few coats of shellac, we are going to try spraying it over the weekend if theres time and weather. Jack has some dust and a few runs/drips in the first coat we need to sand out. I'm amazed we built something so pretty.